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The 2024 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, England, comprising singles, doubles and mixed doubles play. Junior, wheelchair and Invitational tournaments were also scheduled.
[4] [5] The tournament featured 37 five-set matches, the most at any edition of a major in the Open Era, breaking the previous record of 35 jointly held by the 1983 US Open and 2024 Australian Open. [6] [7] Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard became the first lucky loser to reach the fourth round since Dick Norman in 1995. [8]
List of Wimbledon gentlemen's singles champions; ... List of US Open champions; References ... This page was last edited on 1 October 2024, ...
Barbora Krejčíková won her second grand slam and first Wimbledon title on Saturday, eventually overpowering Italy’s Jasmine Paolini 6-2 2-6 6-4 in a thrilling women’s final.
This marked only the second time in the Open Era that the defending Wimbledon women's singles champion lost in the first round, after Steffi Graf lost to Lori McNeil in 1994. [ 9 ] Lulu Sun became the first woman representing New Zealand to reach a major quarterfinal since Belinda Cordwell at the 1989 Australian Open , and the first qualifier ...
The 2024 Wimbledon Championships Men's Singles final was the championship tennis match of the men's singles tournament at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships.Third seed and defending champion Carlos Alcaraz defeated second seed and seven-time champion Novak Djokovic in straight sets to defend the title, 6–2, 6–2, 7–6 (7–4).
Her opening opponent will be 2020 Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin, who eliminated Coco Gauff in the first round at Wimbledon a year ago — less than three months before Gauff would go on to ...
The US Open abandoned grass in 1975 for green clay and the Australian Open did so in 1988 for hard courts; the US Open eventually adopted hard courts as well. From 1877 until 1921, the club's grounds were situated on four acres of meadowland in central Wimbledon between Worple Road and the railway line.